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The leaf has been arround for ages, the battery energy density has improved over the years but they all have the same size and shape so most upgrades are using batteries from scrapped later models. It also has an enthusiastic group of early adopter owners so has a market for battery upgrades. I guess if somebody comes up with a way to upgrade the smaller battery MEB cars then that work around could be used to upgrade an enyaq but the only bigger battery on MEB is the 86kwh battery from an ID7 which wont be a big upgrade even if it physically fits.

To echo what everyone else says, charge at home overnight where the rate of charge is almost irrelevant unless you are emptying the battery on consecutive days. Octopus intelligent go is 7.5p per kWh if you let them manage the charging and you get that rate for 6 hours for the rest of the house. This is <2p a mile at 4 miles/kWh If you are going somewhere where the round trip is beyond the fully charged range and can make destination charging work then use that. As an example if I have to take the (much shorter range that the enyaq) e-up into Inverness and I'm there for a few hours I'll charge as much as I can on a 7kw charger while its parked and I'm busy in town. Charge place Scotland in the council car park is currently 35p kWh or <9p mile. This could take up 4 hours to add enough charge for the return journey so If I don't manage to get enough charge then I'll stop at a rapid charger on the way home and only add enough charge to get home. CPS is currently 64p Kwh so 16p mile. In this example an enyaq should manage the round trip without a charge. With octopus you can get an electroverse card that adds any charging to your electricity bill and gives discounts on some networks and plunge pricing which is temporary reductions at participating chargers when there's lots of renewable generation on the grid. When I was looking to get the enyaq I calculated that for 50mpg at 134.9 litre vs 4m/kWh then 49.061 p kWh was the cut off at which ICE is cheaper per mile. My excel spreadsheet had a formula where I could adjust the % of rapid (85p) vs home (7.5p) charging to see how much I saved in fuel a year, it needed to be over half my charging to cancel out any fuel saving based on my annual milage.

Ended up going for a used enyaq in the end but I did get to look at an elroq boot without the buggy to hand. The ribbed area is available as boot space

Not long collected a 2024 85 edition in race blue. Dealer says ex Škoda management. Man maths makes it cost the same as the old Scala based on TCO. Second EV joining an e-up!

Just set up Thule bars on mine and they came with a tool preset to 4nm, I’d guess that would be in the ball park

Has anyone tried to fit a running buggy into an elroq? I’m considering upgrading my Scala to either a new Elroq or a used Enyaq but live miles from the nearest dealership so a fit test is easier said than done. We have a running buggy that needs to fit length ways into the boot to leave space for the dog and it only just fits in the Scala. Looking at Škodas website the boots of both cars are 880mm long and we are using every bit of that to fit the buggy. The photo attached shows it propped up against the seat but with the dog guard fitted it needs to lay flat which means the back of it is on the ridged plastic with the lock cut out. It needs to fit as tight to the side as possible and anything like a bracket for a false floor or even a level floor might be enough to stop it fitting. Has anyone got access to an Elroq and a Thule urban glide 2 and could test the fit?

We have the 1.0ltr 110hp with the dsg gearbox and live in Caithness however have family in Cornwall and North Wales so do our fair share of rural driving. When we go away we have 2 adults, a toddler and a dog so have a roofbox on as well for all the stuff that the dog displaces from the boot. The engine is perfectly adequate although sometimes putting the gearbox into sport mode can make progress a bit smoother if you’re constantly changing your speed. I guess if it were an a manual you’d be changing gear more often. We came from a 2ltr Fsi mk5 golf and it is slower, however the nature of the power delivery being a turbo means I only really notice in spirited driving.

Managed to find instructions for the kamiq dog guard, assuming the Scala one is similar it requires 4x holes drilling through the trim above pre-drilled hole in the body into which fixing points are riveted. The dog guard screws into these. I like the look of this more than bracing it against the trim round the small window but don’t have the necessary tools to attach the fixing points. it’s a bit of a pain for me to get to a dealership, I live in Caithness, there’s a VW garage in Inverness that does servicing then my nearest proper Skoda dealer is in Dundee or Aberdeen

I’ve used travall in a couple of previous cars, always well made but the golf one I had required a lot of twiddling to take out. I was trying to see if the Skoda guard was permanently screwed in or if the holes were for some kind of quick release fitting. still think Volvo do dog guards the best with their folding design that hinges from the roof

Has anyone fitted the genuine Skoda dog guard? I notice it’s listed as drilling required, trying to decide if it’s worth getting one over the travall dog guard that doesn’t require drilling but looks less neat at the sides. I’d be fitting it myself so would ideally like to see the fitting instructions before deciding. https://www.caffynscarparts.com/skoda-scala-dog-guard-2896-p.asp https://www.travall.co.uk/skoda/scala-2018--/travallr-guard-tdg1654#images-1

You are perhaps missing the point. 168 miles more than covers my 30 mile commute and I have access to another car. Even if I didn’t I could hire an ICE or a longer range EV for the occasional longer trip. My other car isn’t an Mx-5 because I need more than 2 seats and space for a dog; rather than moan on mx5 forums about the lack of seating I’d buy something that met my needs, if I routinely traveled more than 160 miles I’d buy a car that met that need. It might not be an EV but I wouldn’t publicly declare all EVs as crap or all 2 seat sport cars as a laughingstock because they don’t meet my specific use case Also if the ice with 168 mile range had that small a range due to packaging and cost reasons rather than **** poor economy it would still meet my commuting needs, it would then come down to the lifetime cost of purchase + fuel to decide if it was a better deal than an EV. Incidentally on this point an eup vs an up gti would take me 6 years to become cheaper if I don’t factor in the lower service costs, the possibility of free charging at 2 charge points in town, any increase in petrol cost and the interest I’m not paying on the eup because I’m in Scotland. That was calculated with all rounding in favour of the GTI and on a flat rate Tarriff. before you come back that the battery won’t last 6 years its warranty is 75% capacity after 8 years which still meets my commuting need